Box and Beard Plot
September 30, 2013
I spotted this in the June 2013 issue of Significance. It’s a joke, I know, but there’s something to be said for showing the shape of the distribution in a compact form, much like a sparkline.
Source: Champkin, J. (Ed.). (2013). Dr Fisher’s casebook: Beard the statistician in his den. Significance 10, 31.